My special rate offer also ended in June, but I had a lot going on and forgot to switch provider so I was put on their standard rate for the past 2 months.
August bill: €371 / 893 U
🥲🔫
Bonkers tells me the best deal at the minute is Airtricity which should reduce my bill by €950 per year over the Energia standard rate. Take 10 minutes to compare prices if you haven’t ever done it.
Doing it today. Rang up Electric Ireland this morn to inform them that they’ve taken money out of my account without applying it to the meter **again**.
After 40 mins I finally get the number for the right department and he starts talking about investigations and all sorts while I’m sitting there at 8.30am with 7 cent to go.
Refused to top me up so I’m moving. I get paid monthly today at around 10 am so they couldn’t even wait 2 hours.
Kind of hard when you’re constantly trying to catch up with your arrears
Im nosey here, whats your set up is this gas and electric or just electric, electric hob, heating etc. cuz i know the price has gone up but this is seems mental
Yeah their out of contract rates are insane, it’s also nice that they advertise “renewable” energy only but still raised their price when fuel went up.
Love some of the advice (usually from the older generations) about “cutting back” on usage. it’s not like we were using electricity for fun last year because it was so cheap. we had one of the highest unit rates in Europe before all these latest hikes.
That’s nothing .. I got one for over €650
How often are you providing a meter reading?
I mean who the fook decided it’s great to get NEW CUSTOMERS over LOYAL returning customers. Does it look better on a PR?
Sure you’re getting new customers, but you’re losing them too (sure a massive amount are lazy etc – but times are changing and people can’t afford to not switch).
For example Vodafone broadband €40 for 1st year, now €70. I can switch to Virgin for €45. Or imagine just closing the account, wait 30 days (use GOMO as a hotspot for that time) and sign up to the €40 offer again.
It can be a minefield though, back when I was sharing a house with some lads, we agreed we’d swap from Bord Gais to Airtricity. Airtricities rates on paper were lower.. but they sent us estimated bills and each time cranked up the estimate a bit to the point it was clearly a “lets see how much we can get away with before they complain” by about the 3rd bill. We sent them a meter reading and were so much in credit, I don’t think we paid a bill again for about 3-4 months.
Morals of the story
1. Read the fine print
2. They’re all schneaky
3. check your meter every so often if they can’t be arsed to read it.
And don’t forget to get into a habit of submitting meter readings. I got my electricity bill down to about €90 for two months. Got an induction hub and new oven, rarely use the kettle now because I use a mocha pot on the hub. Currently with SSE and watching like a hawk for when the contract is up. Been with them for 7 years, never had a problem and I use those customer service years to get my boiler serviced for free.
I have done every year – however only some providers are capable of taking money at certain dates (i.e. after pay day) – and only some providers are capable of taking money by the month as I don’t want a large bill in the winter and a small bill in the summer – I’d prefer it to be smoothed out over the year.
Sames goes for evrything, once you are out of contract move to another supplier and get thier intro deal.
I should do this too… got an expensive bill from them as well.
Since I’m renting and my lease is up before one year ( should me and/or the landlord not wish to renew) how does it work with those yearly contracts?
My electricity supplier is strictly defined by my lease, it’s bollox. Pretty much my least favorite thing about my apartment.
You can still get deals in Ireland?
The market is so fucked in UK there have been no cheaper deals for a year, you cant switch suppliers and the max govt capped rate is being charged.
My current capped (unit rates) bill is around 240 euro a month. If i want a 2 year fixed its 550.
Damn!
Got a smart meter in and ESB offered free usage Sunday. Saves a few quid.
I’m surprised with such high energy bills the Gardai aren’t going door to door looking for cannabis farms.
We joined Energia a year ago, the guy who we signed our contract with basically lied to my parents about how much and how they will pay. They didn’t think twice of it, were getting monthly emails with the payments stating 95 euro or something along those lines, only to then ask me for help with something, me installing the app and finding out that they’re 1k+ in debt lol. Energia are fucking scumbags.
We joined Energia a year ago, the guy who we signed our contract with basically lied to my parents about how much and how they will pay. They didn’t think twice of it, were getting monthly emails with the payments stating 95 euro or something along those lines, only to then ask me for help with something, me installing the app and finding out that they’re 1k+ in debt lol.
My contract is up with Energia on 31st August. When can I switch? Can I do it beforehand and have it kick in on September 1st? I’d rather not pay a contract breakage fee.
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June bill: €224 / 836 U
My special rate offer also ended in June, but I had a lot going on and forgot to switch provider so I was put on their standard rate for the past 2 months.
August bill: €371 / 893 U
🥲🔫
Bonkers tells me the best deal at the minute is Airtricity which should reduce my bill by €950 per year over the Energia standard rate. Take 10 minutes to compare prices if you haven’t ever done it.
https://www.bonkers.ie/compare-gas-electricity-prices/
Doing it today. Rang up Electric Ireland this morn to inform them that they’ve taken money out of my account without applying it to the meter **again**.
After 40 mins I finally get the number for the right department and he starts talking about investigations and all sorts while I’m sitting there at 8.30am with 7 cent to go.
Refused to top me up so I’m moving. I get paid monthly today at around 10 am so they couldn’t even wait 2 hours.
Kind of hard when you’re constantly trying to catch up with your arrears
Im nosey here, whats your set up is this gas and electric or just electric, electric hob, heating etc. cuz i know the price has gone up but this is seems mental
Yeah their out of contract rates are insane, it’s also nice that they advertise “renewable” energy only but still raised their price when fuel went up.
Love some of the advice (usually from the older generations) about “cutting back” on usage. it’s not like we were using electricity for fun last year because it was so cheap. we had one of the highest unit rates in Europe before all these latest hikes.
That’s nothing .. I got one for over €650
How often are you providing a meter reading?
I mean who the fook decided it’s great to get NEW CUSTOMERS over LOYAL returning customers. Does it look better on a PR?
Sure you’re getting new customers, but you’re losing them too (sure a massive amount are lazy etc – but times are changing and people can’t afford to not switch).
For example Vodafone broadband €40 for 1st year, now €70. I can switch to Virgin for €45. Or imagine just closing the account, wait 30 days (use GOMO as a hotspot for that time) and sign up to the €40 offer again.
It can be a minefield though, back when I was sharing a house with some lads, we agreed we’d swap from Bord Gais to Airtricity. Airtricities rates on paper were lower.. but they sent us estimated bills and each time cranked up the estimate a bit to the point it was clearly a “lets see how much we can get away with before they complain” by about the 3rd bill. We sent them a meter reading and were so much in credit, I don’t think we paid a bill again for about 3-4 months.
Morals of the story
1. Read the fine print
2. They’re all schneaky
3. check your meter every so often if they can’t be arsed to read it.
And don’t forget to get into a habit of submitting meter readings. I got my electricity bill down to about €90 for two months. Got an induction hub and new oven, rarely use the kettle now because I use a mocha pot on the hub. Currently with SSE and watching like a hawk for when the contract is up. Been with them for 7 years, never had a problem and I use those customer service years to get my boiler serviced for free.
I have done every year – however only some providers are capable of taking money at certain dates (i.e. after pay day) – and only some providers are capable of taking money by the month as I don’t want a large bill in the winter and a small bill in the summer – I’d prefer it to be smoothed out over the year.
Sames goes for evrything, once you are out of contract move to another supplier and get thier intro deal.
I should do this too… got an expensive bill from them as well.
Since I’m renting and my lease is up before one year ( should me and/or the landlord not wish to renew) how does it work with those yearly contracts?
My electricity supplier is strictly defined by my lease, it’s bollox. Pretty much my least favorite thing about my apartment.
You can still get deals in Ireland?
The market is so fucked in UK there have been no cheaper deals for a year, you cant switch suppliers and the max govt capped rate is being charged.
My current capped (unit rates) bill is around 240 euro a month. If i want a 2 year fixed its 550.
Damn!
Got a smart meter in and ESB offered free usage Sunday. Saves a few quid.
I’m surprised with such high energy bills the Gardai aren’t going door to door looking for cannabis farms.
We joined Energia a year ago, the guy who we signed our contract with basically lied to my parents about how much and how they will pay. They didn’t think twice of it, were getting monthly emails with the payments stating 95 euro or something along those lines, only to then ask me for help with something, me installing the app and finding out that they’re 1k+ in debt lol. Energia are fucking scumbags.
We joined Energia a year ago, the guy who we signed our contract with basically lied to my parents about how much and how they will pay. They didn’t think twice of it, were getting monthly emails with the payments stating 95 euro or something along those lines, only to then ask me for help with something, me installing the app and finding out that they’re 1k+ in debt lol.
My contract is up with Energia on 31st August. When can I switch? Can I do it beforehand and have it kick in on September 1st? I’d rather not pay a contract breakage fee.